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SOCIAL ENGINEERS
ABB’s Longmeadow Regional DrivesWorkshop
ABB recently launched the Regional Drives Workshop at its facility in Longmeadow, Modderfontein, South Africa. As a regional workshop it
provides a repair service to customers throughout sub-Saharan Africa. (See article on page 22).
Enquiries: Email
Virtual Reality experience at PEWA
Cummins Southern Africa demonstrated its recently launched ‘Virtual Reality Equipment’ at Power & Electricity World Africa (PEWA) on Tuesday
28 March 2017. By wearing goggles and a headset, one is taken on a ‘Virtual Reality’ tour of an industrial plant and introduced to the company’s
products, capabilities and solutions. (See article on page 38).
ABB Robotics and Motion Division, Drives and Controls: Nols Muller
(Drives Service Manager), Mark Sheldon (Local Business Unit
Manager), Harald Mossbacher (Local Division Sales Manager).
Tomi Juutilainen (ABB, United Arab Emirates) and Kimmo Hirvonen
(ABB Finland).
ABB Longmeadow, Fritz Grobler, Victor Leal and, from ABB Germany,
Zafer Akyildiz.
ABB Robotics and Motion Division, Drives and Controls: Clodette
Prinsloo, Linda Joseph, Deon du Plessis and Lynette Viljoen.
Sporting the ‘Virtual Reality Equipment’ is Cummins Southern Africa
Director, Power Generation Southern Africa, Kenny Gaynor, with Sales
Engineer, Celeste Cadilhe.
Also at the Cummins stand were Siyandi Naiker and Nakul Virat.
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